Grafting Two Varieties of Avocado Onto One Tree
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- Опубликовано: 1 ноя 2023
- I created a self pollinating avocado tree that will give fruit 7 months out of the year. By grafting both Simmonds and Monroe to the same tree the backyard grower can harvest the Simmonds June - August then the Monroe side will be ready to harvest November - February. Also the Simmonds is flowering type A whereas Monroe is type by which means the tree is self pollinating.
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My mom had an avocado tree that she grew from seed in her yard(she might have grafted it with her sister's Simpson avocado). At 5 years the tree was huge. But was not producing any fruit. She had read that it could take 11 years before an avocado tree will produce. She didn't want to wait that long. She went outside with the baseball bat and started hitting the tree. The following year It produced fruit. The year after that it was so loaded down with fruit it started to break the limbs. The avocados were delicious.
I wonder if the bat had anything to do with it????
@@SleepyLizard she was told that when a plant feels threatened, then it will start flowering and producing. So her sister told her to go out there and start hitting the tree. To see if it would work. It did. And it also worked on all the other fruit trees
Hahah really? How were the fruit?
I did the same with a mango tree and it worked but I was using a machete
Thank you so much Tom for making that beautiful little double pot for me.
Can’t wait to grow them 😍😍😍
You are welcome. it will fit nicely in your collection.
Avocado tree ❤
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Awesome idea and video!
thx Loxahatchee
What a method of having two varieties of trees on one tree. This method saves a lot of space for gardeners with insufficient space. Thank you sir,
you are welcome.
Indeed, my dad did that eith apples and pears into one tree 😅😅
Awesome information buddy great job well done 👍👍👍👍✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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I really love how you grafted that avocado tree. Also I love the size of your avocados.
thank you. the florida varieties tend toward the larger size.
Loved watching your videos, man! That's so much educational for the one who loves gardening and environment like me.
thanks Alfonso!
Thank you so much
you are welcome. you think you might try it?
Thanks Tom. Another great learning opportunity. Just realised I can also do the same with my one seedling with two sprouts. Graft hass and fuerte (type a and b). I have successfully grafted following your videos. Greetings again from Cape Town, RSA. Proufly 4 times rugby World cup champs. Back to back last 2 cups.
yep! that's a blend a lot of professional Hass growers use. I'm on my way out the door to my son's football game. I hope they win.
Wounderful ❤ .
thank you
Good stuff!
thank you.
@@SleepyLizard you’re very welcome thank you for all your videos!
Another wonderful and educational vid....thanks so much. Looking forward to the colab vid with Nimi
thank you Beth. See you soon.
Great ideas as always. Thanks for sharing!
thank you
Nice job. That'll be an interesting tree. Made me nervous with thst knife😂
my hands are covered in cuts and scrapes 🤣
You forgot to put a plastic bag over them to keep the moisture in. I learned that the hard way when I did my earlier ones. Now I only use parafilm. That stuff is magical.
I bag other fruits but I generally don't have problems with my avocados...maybe because my shade house is actually an orchid house so it stays a little humid in there??? I don't know. I do use parfilm sometimes but I couldn't find any when I recorded this. 🤣
@@SleepyLizard My area is getting no rain these days (Central Florida), so that's causing the air to be very dry around here. I'm sure it's ok when it rains every day in the summer months.
Thank you, i really like you videos. Grtz from the Netherlands.
Thank you motor Pennie
oh my...your a grafting wizard my friend
well let's see if it works. In other news my first Balliet graft is taking...saw the first signs of green growth yesterday and more this morning. fingers crossed
@@SleepyLizard that’s great…
We’ll done friend! I like your videos, my neighbors have an avocado tree and it never fruits even though there are other trees in the vicinity. I’m gonna ask him to let me graft a few different varieties and see if there is a better result
good plan
Thanks dude
you are welcome Charles
Outstanding. I love the idea of you grafting two different types of avocados to get more fruit throughout the year and I love your collaboration you are doing with Nimi. It will be fun watching how that progresses. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada🍁
thank you Gio.
I always cut out one of them. Glad you did this video. I have a few that just started to grow with the double. Thank you so much for such a great idea. Wish I could get the Manroe variety. We only have symonds.
same. we generally prune off the runt but last year I let some grow double stems so I could try this.
Spot on!!! This is a much smarter way to graft avocados. I'm fond of the idea of grafting multiple varieties onto the tree. It really is crucial to measure the thickness of each one of the sprouts/seedlings. Looks like you'll be uploading weekly, hopefully. Those are some beautiful avocados. Eventually, I'll get the hang of the infamous avocado flowers. I've only recently learned that flowers transition from male to female or female to male. Regardless, your video is super thought-provoking!
right now I'm doing vids bi weekly because we are in our busy period picking and selling avocados. over the winter I'll up the frequency
that's what an avocado surgeon does
that's quite a lofty title but thank you 😊
someday i want to drive down there to you and get a couple trees
lemme know when.
Oh Tom, if only Florida is near, I'd be there long time ago to buy some of your scions. But then again, you'd probably not sell to me if we're neighbors. :-D
if you ever visit just let me know
I love watching your vids, Friday in particular, mmm... such a good feeling after school! I'm more relaxed, the perfect time. However, I'm a bit concerened with the forecasts, because here in Bulgaria, we're expecting some very strong winds, up to 60 mph (we normally only get up to 70 km/hour, but we have a red warning for thunderstorms). I know that the thunderstorms are nothing compared to those in America, let alone in Florida.
your comment made my day, thank you!
Great video, Tom! Very good idea to graft multiple varieties onto the same seedling. I will have to try that in the future 👍
Nirmala is a good friend of mine and she shared some of the London avocado cuttings with me. I'm hoping my grafts take and someday I get them to flower and fruit 🤞. Although I am much further north than her, so it's going to be more difficult to keep it alive here.
Wow, what a coincidence. You guys have a great community of growers over there.
We used to do that here with stone fruit here in central europe, except we grafted on the branches.
yeah that's how we do mature trees
I wish I can graft people.
Many people share your sentiment. I on the other hand prefer the random surprises Mother Nature provides
I would love to get one of these
I'm going to try and do a bunch. also trying to find another way to do two to one plant.
@@SleepyLizard Nice I'm north of Tampa. Love watching all your videos
I have a baby avacado tree but it’s not going well😢 also I love you and your content thank you so much for choosing avocados for you content
I'm sorry to hear about your tree. What do you think might be wrong?
I don’t know it’s just not growing,and right before I saw this my stupid self accidentally water it with cold water straight from the fridge is that really bad?
water from the fridge won't hurt the tree.
@@SleepyLizard thank you so much for the information
Your thoughts on air layering? I tried grafting a few times and most failed, air layered clones gave me the most success and seem to grow faster
I've air layered loquat and mulberry. We prefer grafting for avocados.
😮 Now do an all season avocado 🥑 Fruit all year! 😬👍
some of my friends have a few varieties that appear to fill the gap between January and May so we might just have all year fruit now.
Wonderful. I love. How you explained and loved your type of avocado tree. Can I do that in Australia? please? thank you.
yes you can. there are many Australians who watch my channel and they can help you out.
Thanks! It's a dream to have such a double tree. Maybe you could make a video of how to graft an avocado on a thick rootstock.
I have to do that and also how to top work a mature tree with new varieties
As always fantastic video demonstration! @2:10 I have a question about the slit you're making. Why make it off-center? What is the benefit? In other words, why not dead-center? I have so far grafted (or at least 'tried' to) several Avocado plants over the last few years but *_every one_* of them failed. It was a bit disheartening.😞
great question, I don't know the answer 😝. that's just how I was taught to do it. I think it might give more surface area for the cambium to heal??? not sure though.
I love your videos about avocados, I which I could grow them here in north Texas like you do. When is the best time of the year to craft avocado trees? Can it be done all year around in warm weather, what about coldest months?
the cuttings are best in the winter months
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I've never tried avocados, I might try one from one of the grocery stores here in town. I guess you can do the same thing with any tree that works the way those do. Supposedly pecan trees even though they are supposed to be self fertile are very bad at it and need a type 1 and type 2 to produce anything and I don't know about one variety flowering earlier or later than another. Thanks
yes this technique is used for many fruit and nut trees. just about all commercial varieties in fact.
Gracias por compartir tu conocimiento saludos a usted y su familia ✌🥑 I want to graft GEM and the newly UCR released variety BL 516 LUNA onto one tree. LUNA is a dark ripening B type. Any thoughts of growing LUNA in Florida?
I never heard of LUNA so I don't know anything about it. I say if you can get your hands on one give it a try.
I'd love to try this with an A and B combo. How important is the rootstock you choose to graft an avocado? Here in OZ we mostly get hass or shepard fruits from the stores. I have a grafted wurtz tree I'd like to clone and am unsure if it'll go with a hass seed
with avocados rootstock isn't very important. nor do we have a way to control it because each seed is unique anyhow. That said, we do have preferred seeds to start with. We like bigger seeds so you'd probably be better off starting with a Wurts seed rather than a Hass
I wonder if FUertes and Hass have that same A&B situation like these SImmons and Monroe's ?
yes, Hass growers intersperse Fuerte to maximize pollination.
SleepyLizard, how often do you spray your avocado trees, and what do you use?
copper anti fungal every 30 days
Great video. I have a grafted 2 year old lila that i just out in the in central FL. Any recommendations for a good type B companion that i could graft with my lila?
Brogdon
How does the simon look like thank you for sharing its great
the Simmonds is very large, shiny light green and pear shaped with a little flat spot on the bottom.
Thank you 👍 you are great
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Sir, why off-centre slit in the seedling? I was trying to get cuttings from that London tree too! Couldn't peg down the location tho.
I just gave this response to somebody who asked the same question. it's a good question but I don't know the exact answer:
great question, I don't know the answer 😝. that's just how I was taught to do it. I think it might give more surface area for the cambium to heal??? not sure though
@@SleepyLizard I will look to do the same at the end of the month with some fresh maui scions 😎
Do you know where I can buy scions? I've tried googling it but haven't found much.
I'm looking for a Monroe Scion, that I can graft onto my Simmonds tree. I have limited space, so having two full trees will be hard.
Thanks!
I've heard some people get them on eBay
Hey curiosity kills the cat but instead of using grafting tape do you think it's possible to use heat shrink tubing
I don't know. we've used rubber bands
I have a Monroe avocado that produced 3 avocados. I saved seeds “huge “. 1 made it with 2 stems. Can I graft my Monroe with this seed?
Thanks
you can graft your Monroe onto that seed yes
I bought this grafted tree in 2019 and for the past two yrs , sm battling the lace bug .
I tried 3 n1 organocide , no help. Any suggestions?
I don't know about he lace bug sorry about that.
A querie to ask, how do you multi-graft a single shoot of an avocado tree? You demonstrated one avocado tree having two rootstocks, but nearly all avocado trees, from the beginning, grow with one rootstock and, in some cases, more than one- like how you picked your trees to multi-graft. If you have one shoot and you wanted to multi-graft on it with two different varieties, how would you do it?
Thanks.
I haven't tried it but I suppose two veneer grafts might work although I would probably do one, let it take and wait for it to branch then graft the other variety onto a branch.
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Do you think pruning encourages branching, or does it only result in stem thickening and lateral growth?
@@Jo-ct1eo when I say lateral growth I mean branching
Awesome. What age are the seedlings you like to use?
We start getting our first avocados in May/June and the faster growing ones are ready to graft in November so 6 months? The ones I did in this vid are from last year which makes sense because with two stems they need a lot more time to grow. Normally I prune away the runts and only allow the dominant stem to grow.
@@SleepyLizard let me fly you out to Fla to help me build out a avo grove
I'm in Florida. where are you? @@mr.worthington6201
I wonder what I can do to get my seedlings to grow faster. They seem to have stalled. I do fertilize around the edges, and I do use Fox Farms soil They are In 3 gallon pots.. Any suggestions? They just seem to be stagnated. I live in Central florida.
Hi Tom, trees do that sometimes. they go in spurts. keep in mind there might be a lot of essential root growth happening under the soil and you can't see that. I'd say just keep doing what you're doing.
@SleepyLizard Thanks, it's a waiting game, then I suppose. Some variety of seeds seem to grow a bit stronger than others? ...Do you believe the theory that a cold tolerant seed is better for a colder climate to graft to, living in Central florida it gets to the 30 for a bit. I've been kicking that around. If so, can I buy just some brogdon or Lila seeds or the actual avocados? Scions are out of the question, huh.🫨🙄. Keep the videos coming were 👀🥑
Great avocado videos do you sell any grafted trees?
Are used to sell trees, but I stopped about two years ago. Now I only saw the fruit.
@@SleepyLizard ok thanks for the fast response. Thanks for all your great avocado videos.
Hows your luck with decapitaing the root stock. I never had any success myself.
Yo! How you doing? I enjoyed your bamboo vid. I'm not sure what you mean by decapitating
@@SleepyLizarddoing good buddy. Cutting everything off lol. I usually leave some leaves on. Glad you like the bamboo video. I'll have to show you haw I did that later 😅
ah ok yeah I have no problems when I cut the all the way down@@FruitFloridaFarm
How do you get a seedlings put 2 instead of one and how successful can 2 grafts into one be
you just find one that grows that way. Of the two it did one took on only one side and the other failed. that said, when I graft on video my success rate is lower than when I'm just grafting. I got too much to manage when I'm filming and doing a task at the same time. I get overwhelmed
@SleepyLizard great video, and thank you for your answer. Once I move to Florida, I hope soon I would like to buy a few trees from you
Does the time of year that you make a graft matter?
you can graft year round but we do most of our grafting in the winter.
What is the best avocado rootstock to graft onto that is resistant to many disease and coldest environment?
there isn't one. but we like to use Lula seeds. but every seed is random
@@SleepyLizard thanks 😊 🙏
Where can you get a Jan Boyce scion to do this with?
I never heard of that variety.
Well you be selling double grafted trees in the future?
maybe. I want to see how this works out
How do you figure out what type tree an unknown avocado tree is?
I happen to have a video on that very topic
After graft in how many years do we expect to get fruit
3-4
Do we need to cover with plastic to the graft
we usually wrap the cutting in parafilm but I didn't have any so I'll keep these in my orchid house which is very humid
Is there a time period after repotting before grafting?
yes, you never want to subject a tree to more than one stressful event in a 30 day period so it would be good to wait 30 days after repotting before you graft.
Do you grow purple avocados?
yes I have one variety called Morada
Can you also graft very young and thin trees? Is it just more difficult?
I'm not sure exactly what the limit is but yes, you can graft them pretty narrow as long as the diameters match
@@SleepyLizard Thank you for the quick response! I love your videos, they are very relaxing
I have a PEACHNECPRUNPLUMCOTCHERAL here in a container
That's a mouthful 😀
Any tips on growing tropical fruits in 7b
well that could be a challenge because of frost. I don't know much about that but I suppose you'd need to take measures to simulate zone 9b or above...like water and heat lights but I don't really know.
@@SleepyLizard Yeah its gonna be a struggle, But i'll do what I can
When will you know the graft took? Thanks
You see buds pushing through. sometimes it takes a few weeks, I've had some take up to 5 months.
Can you air layering a grafted avocado my friend
Yes you can
Can you graft 2 on one seedling
I'm inclined to think two at the same time might be challenging but maybe do one then come back 6 months later and add another? I gotta experiment with them and see.
been awhile since we chatted
yeah I been on a few of your gaming streams but I think you are so focused on the game you don't see my chats 🤣. How you been?
@@SleepyLizard oh yeah my bad i will try to do better on looking at your chats more
nah it's cool you are passionate about the game...no time to look up
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@@SleepyLizard if you saw any of my streams i'm not having fun on a boss fight